- Strengths focused
- Goal oriented
- Evidence informed
About Erica
Erica Gilmore is an Illinois licensed professional counselor - clinical (LCPC) who focuses on stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and depression. She emphasizes that clients are the experts in their own stories. Her approach centers on building from each person’s strengths and taking small, manageable steps forward.
Erica views starting therapy as a brave choice and offers a calm, straightforward environment. She listens first and works with people to set clear, realistic goals. Sessions are practical and aimed at everyday problems like sleep, parenting strain, work stress, and relationship friction.
She blends a few different ways of working to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Client-centered techniques keep the person’s own values and choices at the heart of sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation or intense stress is a central concern.
Erica has seven years working with people after earning her Illinois LCPC. Her background includes helping clients cope with grief, eating and body image concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue among caregivers. She also supports people navigating identity and relationship questions within LGBT concerns.
In the room she focuses on clear steps, homework you can actually do, and checking progress as you go. The aim is to make daily life more manageable, improve sleep and rest where that is a concern, and help people feel steadier over time.
How specific approaches guide online therapy choices
Erica uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as primary ways to work with people. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, validating a person’s experience, and following the client’s pace to set goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and offers concrete strategies to change what isn’t helping.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotional intensity or self-regulation is central. DBT skills teach grounding, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication for times of crisis or ongoing stress. Together these approaches give tools for sleep problems, anxiety, relationship patterns, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Erica will talk with each person about goals, what has or hasn’t helped before, and which methods feel like the best fit. She adapts techniques over time based on what the client needs and prefers.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports continuing work on sleep routines, skill practice, and tracking progress between sessions.
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Experience
7+ years
Credentials
Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Erica commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, sleep and rest issues, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and related problems listed in her specialties.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and person-centered. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and small steps clients can use between sessions.
What is her clinical background?
She has seven years as a licensed clinician and several more years of professional experience before licensure. That work includes addressing mood, trauma, addiction, and caregiver stress.
Where is Erica licensed and based?
Erica holds an Illinois LCPC license and is based in Illinois.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English, and she does accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
The biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.